Struggling with your poetry?
This course gives you a full breakdown of the poems in the CAIE / Cambridge A Level Poetry Anthology (Selected from Songs of Ourselves, Volume 2).
Enroll today for access to engaging video content*, plus a downloadable PDF study guide for each poem covering the following topics:
- VOCABULARY
- STORY / SUMMARY
- SPEAKER / VOICE
- ATTITUDES
- LANGUAGE FEATURES
- FORM / STRUCTURE
- CONTEXT
- THEMES
Still not sure? Take a look at these free previews from the course:
'Sonnet 19' William Shakespeare - Video Lesson
'The Mountain' Elizabeth Bishop - PDF Study Guide
*I am in the process of recording lectures to accompany the documents, and they will be added as soon as they are ready.
We are also updating the design of the PDF guides, and hope to have them all finished soon.
You can also purchase individual documents from the CIE A-Level Poetry Anthology Course.
This is a great option if you don't require everything in the complete course.
Example Curriculum
Video Lectures (I'm in the process of filming lectures for this course)
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Poem Analysis (PDFs)
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- 'The Mountain' Elizabeth Bishop
- 'First March' Ivor Gurney
- 'The Cry of the Children' Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- 'Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening' Charlotte Smith
- 'Sonnet 19' William Shakespeare
- 'The Pride of Lions' Joanna Preston
- 'The Wedding' Moniza Alvi
- 'If Thou must Love Me' Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- 'Song' Lady Mary Wroth
- 'Shirt' Robert Pinsky
- 'Darkness' Lord Byron
- 'On The Day of Judgement' Jonathan Swift
- 'A Complaint' William Wordsworth
- 'A Song of Faith Forsworn' John Warren
- 'Farewell, ungrateful traitor' John Dryden
- 'The Song of the Shirt' Thomas Hood
- 'When We Two Parted' Lord Byron
- 'Homecoming' Lenrie Peters
- 'I Years Had Been From Home' Emily Dickinson
- 'Waterfall' Lauris Dorothy Edmond
- 'When You Are Old' W. B. Yeats
- 'On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year' Lord Byron
- 'Futility' Wilfred Owen
- 'The Death-Bed' Siegfried Sassoon
- 'Distant Fields / ANZAC Parade' Rhian Gallagher
- 'A Wife in London' Thomas Hardy
- 'Sleep' Kenneth Slessor
- 'The Pains of Sleep' Samuel Taylor Coleridge
